Archive for the ‘debt’ Category
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
If you spent a million dollars a day every day since the day Christ was born, you still would not have spent a trillion dollars.
If you stacked $1 bills on top of each other, your stack would have to go 78,914 miles into space before you reached a trillion dollars.
If ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The price of this 1998 Volkswagon Jetta?
Three times what our energy costs will be this year?
The amount of government assistance given to Rose E. Frechette in 2004 and 2005?
The price of 50,157 Member's Mark baby diapers from Sam's Club?
28 Nintendo Wii's? (unless you have to buy yours on Ebay)
My family's ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The M-network and friends are posting about net worth today. Net worth is basically the difference between the positive side of the ledger (assets) and the negative side (debt). There are a lot of different theories on figuring net worth. I have included my house and "0% balance transfer" money. I am not ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
I just received this notice in the mail last week regarding our car loan payment. We are pretty tight for cash right now so I am tempted to accept the offer, but I'm not completely convinced that the deal is such a good idea in the long run. Here is the pitch:
Good news! There's ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
I have been tagged by Plonkee in the post If I Were Debt Free.
When I first found out that I had been tagged on this topic, I immediately thought, "That will be easy to write about." But as I began to consider the issue, I realized that I really hadn't ...
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